The Syrian army said on Monday that the country’s airstrikes included an “Israeli attack” over the capital, Damascus, in the latest step-by-step bombing of Iran’s domestic targets. on the last two months.
The state media did not provide details about what was hit by the Israeli air force.
Israeli military planes flew over the Golan Heights to hit targets on the edge of the capital, an army statement said, not to mention casualties but to put down most of the air defenses. the missiles. “Our air defenses continue to attack Israeli missile attacks over the capital’s skies,” the Syrian army said in a statement.
A Syrian military defender said the bombings hit a major military area in the city of Kiswa, nearly 14 km (8.7 miles) south of the capital, in a sprawling area where it has the upper hand. iron-backed militias.
Witnesses heard massive explosions on the southern edge of Damascus, an area where Iranian-backed militias are stationed, residents said.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the latest strike, but its top military officials have acknowledged that the escalating attacks inside Syria have stopped Tehran’s military presence in Syria. .
Israeli Defense Force chief of staff Aviv Kochavi said at the end of last year that his country’s missile strikes had “delayed Iran’s invasion of Syria,” hitting more than 500 targets in 2020 .
Western intelligence sources say Iran’s military influence has expanded in Syria in recent years, forcing Israel to reduce their campaign to prevent its rival from reaching a major military site on its border.
Iran’s proxy militias, led by Hezbollah from Lebanon, are now taking over large areas in eastern, southern and northwestern Syria, as well as several suburban areas around on Damascus. They also control the Lebanese-Syrian border areas.
Israel, which has halted some of its biggest strikes yet within Syria, is on Al Bukamal, a Syrian city that controls the border checkpoint on the main Baghdad-Damascus road.
The expanding military campaign was part of a so-called “intra-war campaign,” which, according to Israeli generals and regional intelligence sources, is firmly agreed with the United States.
The operations aimed at preventing Tehran from shifting the balance of power in Syria are in favor of a gradual decline in Iran’s widespread military power without encouraging a sharp rise in enemies, sources say departmental information states.